“Learning Through Digital & Interactive Art about the Land at Surrey Art Gallery: Towards Deepening Responsibilities, Relationships, and Commitments” presented by Rajah
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- ISEA Institutional Presentations
Presentation Title:
- Learning Through Digital & Interactive Art about the Land at Surrey Art Gallery: Towards Deepening Responsibilities, Relationships, and Commitments
Presentation Subtheme:
- Ecologies of place
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Since the late 1990s, Surrey Art Gallery has been a leading public art museum in Canada with a commitment to the production and presentation of digital art, and to working with local, national, and international Indigenous artists through this stream, more broadly within other media, and art education. The Gallery collaborates with artists to proactively respond to new developments in art and provide communities where situated with opportunities to learn about and experience contemporary art using technology. Moving toward its 50th anniversary in 2025, the Gallery readies for its transition into the Interactive Art Museum, a new facility at three times its current size in Surrey City Centre. This is informed by working with extraordinary local and international artists and community stakeholders through 20 years of operating its TechLab, a purpose-built facility supporting the production and presentation of digital art, followed by 6 years an experimental art lab pilot; 21 years of its Media Gallery, an interactive screen installation space; 20 years of its Open Sound, an ongoing program of commissioning, presenting, and discussing digital audio art and related symposia; and over 10 years of its UrbanScreen, an offsite projection venue presenting leading edge digital and interactive art.
